# TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE (ṯāt ʾikezzer)

> with which one curls (the hair)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ṯāt ʾikezzer
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḏāt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0876/index.md>) 'that of, she who' (feminine demonstrative/relative) + [\*kzr](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3862/index.md>) 'to curl the hair'
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · TE (te) · I (i) · KE (ke) · ZA (za) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kezēru* — kezēru 'to curl the hair', i-ke-ez-zi-ru in EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas 'with which one curls hair' among gifts from Egypt (CAD K 316); kezertu 'woman with curled hair' (CAD K 314)
- Ugaritic: d, f. and pl. dt 'which, who', the relative (DULAT 252)

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/index.md>): \]SI\[ \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE — with which one curls (the hair): ṯāt 'which', the relative (Ug. d, dt), + ʾikezzer, present of Akkadian kezēru 'to curl the hair' (CAD K 316), as in EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas 'with which one curls hair'; KE dotted (GORILA IV 154–155)

## Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin from a Mavro Spelio tomb, end of the second row: TI-DI-TE-QA-TI · TA-SA-ZA · TA-TE-I-KẸ-ZA-RE, KE dotted in GORILA IV 154–155, undotted in Younger. TA-TE ṯāt 'which', the feminine relative, ṯ in the T-series as in KA-TA-RE; Ug. d, dt (DULAT 252). I-KE-ZA-RE ʾikezzer 'one curls', present of kezēru 'to curl the hair' (CAD K 316), the verb of EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas 'with which one curls hair' (i-ke-ez-zi-ru). The root is Akkadian only. I- is the Akkadian-type 3cs prefix, or 1cs ʾi- 'I curl'. ZA has a where Akkadian has i. One attestation. See TI-DI-TE-QA-TI, A-DA-RA and ZA-TI.

## Same root

- [ZA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZA-TI/index.md>) (zāt)
- [DA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-TU/index.md>) (ḏātu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K; DULAT; Younger
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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